nation

nation-state

-clearly defined cultural group
-political unit comprising a clearly delineated territiory where the population shares a common history and culture(ex. japan, korea, Urugay)
-nation's homeland corresponds exactly to states territory.

frontier

geopolitics

study of spatial and territorial dimentsions ofpowerrelationships within the global political-terrtitorial order.
-attempts to explain whysome countries have power and others dont
-how states acquire power

3 classical geopolitical theories

organic theory

friedrich ratzel-saidthat a state is comparable to a biological organism bc a state has to be born develop and die
-says that a country needs noursiment tosurvive ( acuqiring territory and recources)
-hitler used theory as justificationfor nazis expansion

lebensraum

atrophy

heartland theory

-sir halford Mackinder believed land basedpower not naval/sea power would rule theworldcountries dont need navy to move armies
-focus of warfare should be to the interior-hearland..not sea
-"pivot area" northern and interiorparts of eurasia
-he who controls the heartland, controls the world island(africa and eurasia)..and if he controls that..hecontrols the world

exclusive economic zone (EEZ)

suprnationalism

collection of individual states with a commongoal thatmay be econ or poltical in nature
diminishes soveriegty in favor for collective interests ofentire membership
(ex. EU countries..adoption of single currency..UN, NATO,NAFTA)